Redeliver message from user's mailbox 1

[fugtruck]

I have a Postfix + SpamAssassin server acting as an outbound SMTP gateway to prevent my users from sending spam. Messages that have a high enough SPAM score get delivered to a local user account designated as spam. Well, I have a problem and some messages were incorrectly scored and got sent to the spam mailbox. I have since fixed the problem and need to redeliver these messages, but they are no longer available from the client (the messages were actually generated from a form on a web site) and the only copies I have are the ones in the spam mailbox. I tried the following command:

sendmail -i < message_file_name

but nothing shows up in the mail log indicating that the message was ever sent. I also need the messages to appear as they were originally sent (hopefully) and there are a lot of them, so just forwarding individual messages is not going to work.

Any suggestions?

 

[Noway2]

Perhaps a long shot, but are you using Amavisd with postfix + spamassassin and if so, did the messages go to a quarantine directory in addition to being sent to the spam folder?

If it is in a quarantine file, you can use the amavisd-release command to re-inject the message back into the delivery queue.

 

[fugtruck]

Nope, not using Amavisd. Been meaning to reconfigure the server with it but haven't gotten around to it

 

[Noway2]

It is a bit of a work around, but perhaps you could use a PHP script to read the emails, which should be text files, extract the recipient information and re-send it out. The PHP Pear libraries have rather comprehensive mail support that is straight forward to use.

Here is some code that is modified from a web page I am working on to get you started. You would need to read the file and use a regex pattern match and find the recipient information and then build up the email from the one in the spam folder.

	$fp = fopen($outfile, "r");
	if(!$fp || filesize ($outfile)==0)
	{
		$result = -1;
	}
	else
	{
		//read the encrypted file
		$contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($outfile));
		//delete the encrypted temp file
		unlink($outfile);

 		$from = "webpage <webpage@localhost>";
 		$to = "xxx < xxx@nyyyy.net>";
 		$subject = "abcd";
 		$date = date("d m Y : H:i:s", time());
 		$host = "your.smtp.server";
 		$username = "authenticated user name";
 		$password = "password here";
		 
 		$headers = array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject, 'Date' => $date);
 		$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username,
 		'password' => $password));
 
		 $mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $contents); //was body - changed to contents
 
		 if (PEAR::isError($mail)) 
		 {
   			echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  	 } 
  	 else 
  	 {
   			echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
  	 }
		
	}
}

 

[fugtruck]

Thanks buddy!

 

[Noway2]

Your quite welcome. I hope your successful in the attempt.

Just make sure you work from a backup copy of the spam folder, just in case. When writing scripts that open and write to the files, you can easily delete things